The largest numerically is Numismatics collection – nearly 74,000 units of keeping. The archaeological collections are also large: at the “Archeology” fund there are almost 56,000 units kept, the fund “Kyiv Rus'” numbers nearly 46,000 units of keeping. The smallest is a fund group “Plastic”.

Items containing precious metals and stones are treated in special way. Among them there are - orders and medals, coins, clocks, weapon, articles of applied arts.

Some items and collections are rarities of the world importance: a manuscript “Krystynopil Apostle”, the 12th century, early printed book of Schweipolt Fiol and Ivan Fedorovych, the oldest graphic views of Lviv, the 17th – 18th centuries, military tents of eastern type (among them - captured Turkish tent, gained in the Battle of Vienna, 1683), Polish winged hussar armor and the collection of Galician weapon, old decorations of Europe and Asia made of gold and silver decorated with precious gems and colored enamels (there are unique ones among them – the Order of Saint Andrew, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Order of Saint Hubert).

Valuable memorial monuments are kept in different fund groups. For example the autograph of Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, the strand of Napoleon Bonaparte hair, the kaftan of Peter the Great, the personals of Solomiya Krushelnytska, Maria Zankovetska and Mykhailo Drahomanov.